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AT&T Announces iPhone MMS Launch Date: September 25
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Consumer Reports have consistently rated Verizon one of the top wireless networks across several different US cities, while AT&T has been rated toward the bottom. While CDMA is a dying technology, it is very reliable and it's frequencies penetrate buildings better. I was with Sprint for seven years before switching for the iPhone. The dropped calls aren't enough to make me give up the iPhone, but I definitely notice a difference of network quality between CDMA and GSM.
No Thanks!
AT&T thanks but no thank you! It's too late! I'll just use email, twitter, facebook or mobileme to share my images. If you cannot access those images I shared check it later with your computer. If you want to keep up with me buy yourself an iPhone now we're talking. Sarcasm...
AT&T thanks but no thank you! It's too late! I'll just use email, twitter, facebook or mobileme to share my images. If you cannot access those images I shared check it later with your computer. If you want to keep up with me buy yourself an iPhone now we're talking. Sarcasm...
There's no words to describe the epic fail.
AT&T, I spit thy name and the taste left in my mouth is rancid and sickening.
AT&T, I spit thy name and the taste left in my mouth is rancid and sickening.
ok i get that everyone is mad, because its 3 days after end of summer, but in all honesty. i doubt AtT does it on purpose and i agree if Verizon gets the iPHone i guarantee they will **** it up with their ****** os that they use on all their phones. and verizon does not work in all overseas countries like att does.
did you think that up after peeing in the coffee cup of that middle-school teacher you don't like, and before spitting on that food at the burger joint you work at? Please re-think your response.
It makes me LOL that AT&T shows a 1st gen iPhone in their announcement......
Call me...or MMS me.... when they do something good...
Call me...or MMS me
.... when they do something good...Lol, for what, an extra $60 a month? What a shame At&t, you have done iphoner's dirty.
Man, does AT&T suck. Took them long enough. Thing is, I almost don't want them to roll it out now, because their network service is so crappy as it is. I was reading today's NY Times article about how pissed iPhone users are about their shoddy network... count me in. Why am I paying for this data plan when I can't connect 50% of the time? My contract is up and I am on the verge of getting a dumbphone on Verizon instead. As cool as the iPhone is, having AT&T as the carrier is crippling it.
LOL, exactly. Geesh, MMS ooh 1999 high tech!
And email just wont suffice. Viewing on those 1" wide screens makes for a great pic experience right?
Wow, that's a relief.
Seriously, I'd rather see AT&T allow it's DSL subscribers to send messages without that ancient CWMX server that is probably two hamsters and an albino monkey. Google's outgoing server is a bazillion times faster and I don't ever give them a dime.
Seriously, I'd rather see AT&T allow it's DSL subscribers to send messages without that ancient CWMX server that is probably two hamsters and an albino monkey. Google's outgoing server is a bazillion times faster and I don't ever give them a dime.
and email just wont suffice. Viewing on those 1" wide screens makes for a great pic experience right?
It's a lot better than not seeing a picture at all!
How about I keep I-heart-radio on all day over EDGE. Will that help?
Anything to screw over ATT!
AT&T's MMS announcement
How funny, and not surprising coming from AT&T. Has anyone noticed that the photo of the girl in the MMS press release from AT&T is holding a 2G/1st gen iPhone??? For a announcement of MMS??? the 1st gen iPhone is not and will not be capable of MMS, only the 3G and the 3GS. What dumb asses.
How funny, and not surprising coming from AT&T. Has anyone noticed that the photo of the girl in the MMS press release from AT&T is holding a 2G/1st gen iPhone??? For a announcement of MMS??? the 1st gen iPhone is not and will not be capable of MMS, only the 3G and the 3GS. What dumb asses.
MMS long overdue.
However, my coverage and service with AT&T has been spot on since I switched from T-Mobile over a year and half ago.
With experience being on Sprint and the latter two.. At&t wins hands down.
My only complaint are the ridiculous text messaging plans. 200 or 1500, what the hell. Now that is shady..
However, my coverage and service with AT&T has been spot on since I switched from T-Mobile over a year and half ago.
With experience being on Sprint and the latter two.. At&t wins hands down.
My only complaint are the ridiculous text messaging plans. 200 or 1500, what the hell. Now that is shady..
Multiquote overload! You've been warned!
I disagree. Especially with living in Las Vegas, I have never had a problem with 3G or Edge service, all the way down to Kingman, AZ and Laughlin (hour and a half drive south), All the way down I-15 to the LA Basin, I-15 up to Cedar City, UT (2 hours drive northeast), and Indian Springs (45 minutes Northwest). 3G solid in every direction into and out of Las Vegas, and I live in the northwestern part of town, slapped next to Lone Mountain. You'd think I'd lose coverage next to that, but I have full bars in my apartment.
A couple of them still do (US Cellular is one), but they're smaller and hopefully won't be fading away. They may be like a MetroPCS; service only good for the city you're in, and when you leave that city, your plan is no good. Nationwide, it's ATT and T-Mobile.
This won't have anything to do with an OS update. A new carrier file will come out, as this doesn't affect any other carrier.
Wah. get over it. Be happy that you're getting it.
Bloody hell. Complain that you don't have it, and when it comes, complain about it not being when YOU want it. Fail.
Do us all a favour. Save yourself, your money and our bandwidth and get off ATT Now. If you don't like the service, leave it. No-one forced you to be with ATT.
Finally, a post with some sense. The same thing would happen with just about any other carrier, especially for as much land as we have and have to cover. Data or no, this is a huge undertaking by ATT just to have the iPhone (as would Verizon if they hadn't turned it down).
Any network would fall under this load, especially given the popularity the iPhone has.
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I first visited my SO in Sacramento from Las Vegas in 2003. I was with ATT at the time, having just moved from Sprint (Sprint at that time had a HUGE hold on Vegas; everything there was Sprint, or nothing at all). She and her roommate had both just purchased Verizon phones. Verizon taunted that they had the best network in the Bay area, plus up the I-80 corridor to Reno at the time...
.. yet on multiple occasions with their CDMA phones, she could turn one way, and would drop calls. Sneezed? call drops. Take one step? dropped calls. This was with 4 different phones in a 30 day period. The following month, they switched to Cingular and hadn't had a problem since.
Verizon blowz goatz. If you could, please cite which cities they did this 'test' in. Odds are they are all on the East Coast, where they bought all of the existing lines and services from Bell Atlantic North, Bell Atlantic South, and Ameritech.
I find it funny that people complain about not having it, then complain that when they get it, it isn't when they want it, and we wonder why people are sick and broke, wanting their instant gratification from everything...
BL.
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Not that it would have helped me much out west in the US. I don't know about anyone else, but the 3G/Edge data service in Las Vegas, NV was absolutely atrocious! Though voice service seemed ok, and I always had indication of strong signals, I was lucky if I could send or receive data 1/4 of the time I spent there recently on vacation.
By the way, 2 different, 3G family iPhones both exhibited the exact same awful data services out there. The phones worked fine back home here in New England.
I disagree. Especially with living in Las Vegas, I have never had a problem with 3G or Edge service, all the way down to Kingman, AZ and Laughlin (hour and a half drive south), All the way down I-15 to the LA Basin, I-15 up to Cedar City, UT (2 hours drive northeast), and Indian Springs (45 minutes Northwest). 3G solid in every direction into and out of Las Vegas, and I live in the northwestern part of town, slapped next to Lone Mountain. You'd think I'd lose coverage next to that, but I have full bars in my apartment.
A couple of them still do (US Cellular is one), but they're smaller and hopefully won't be fading away. They may be like a MetroPCS; service only good for the city you're in, and when you leave that city, your plan is no good. Nationwide, it's ATT and T-Mobile.
This won't have anything to do with an OS update. A new carrier file will come out, as this doesn't affect any other carrier.
Hey! That's not late summer!
Wah. get over it. Be happy that you're getting it.
Bloody hell. Complain that you don't have it, and when it comes, complain about it not being when YOU want it. Fail.
Do us all a favour. Save yourself, your money and our bandwidth and get off ATT Now. If you don't like the service, leave it. No-one forced you to be with ATT.
To be fair, move all those iPhone users to any OTHER single US network, and it too would begin to fail--especially the data network, but maybe MMS too, if iPhone users find the features easier and thus send more MMS messages than other people. Plus it's just a lot of people, period.
I despise AT&T, to be sure, but "every other" carrier wouldn't have been trouble-free either. Something would be bound to go wrong (in the US anyway
Finally, a post with some sense. The same thing would happen with just about any other carrier, especially for as much land as we have and have to cover. Data or no, this is a huge undertaking by ATT just to have the iPhone (as would Verizon if they hadn't turned it down).
Any network would fall under this load, especially given the popularity the iPhone has.
+2^1024
I first visited my SO in Sacramento from Las Vegas in 2003. I was with ATT at the time, having just moved from Sprint (Sprint at that time had a HUGE hold on Vegas; everything there was Sprint, or nothing at all). She and her roommate had both just purchased Verizon phones. Verizon taunted that they had the best network in the Bay area, plus up the I-80 corridor to Reno at the time...
.. yet on multiple occasions with their CDMA phones, she could turn one way, and would drop calls. Sneezed? call drops. Take one step? dropped calls. This was with 4 different phones in a 30 day period. The following month, they switched to Cingular and hadn't had a problem since.
Verizon blowz goatz. If you could, please cite which cities they did this 'test' in. Odds are they are all on the East Coast, where they bought all of the existing lines and services from Bell Atlantic North, Bell Atlantic South, and Ameritech.
I find it funny that people complain about not having it, then complain that when they get it, it isn't when they want it, and we wonder why people are sick and broke, wanting their instant gratification from everything...
BL.
$$$ Canada
I was excited when MMS came to Canadian iPhones a few months ago...til I learned that despite paying $30/month for 6GB of data, and more for unlimited text messages, I would have to pay ANOTHER $0.50 per MMS message...thanks but no thanks
too bad as MMS would have been a great feature! If you in the US get it included in your plans count yourselves very lucky.
I was excited when MMS came to Canadian iPhones a few months ago...til I learned that despite paying $30/month for 6GB of data, and more for unlimited text messages, I would have to pay ANOTHER $0.50 per MMS message...thanks but no thanks
too bad as MMS would have been a great feature! If you in the US get it included in your plans count yourselves very lucky.
YMMV
On the peninsula, my Verizon coverage is superb.
The only problem I have is understanding calls from friends/colleagues who have Iphones - the voice quality is horrible.
"Can you hear me now?"
"What?"
"Can you hear me now?"
"What?"
"Can you hear me now?"
"What?"
"Can you hear me now?"
"What?"
"Can you hear me now?"
"What?"
"Can you hear me now?"
"What?"
And AT&T was worrying about bandwidth use before, so they release a cool feature MMS just as all the college students start going back to school and all the high schoolers are all now back to create mischief, and now have the ability to send for all of posterity!